BSI Chapter 262 Putting effort into improving the level of industrial manufacturing
Chapter 262 Putting effort into improving the level of industrial manufacturing
Chapter 262 Putting effort into improving the level of industrial manufacturing
This time, the power system on the "Longwei" caused the whole ship to tremble, although after several months of hard work, it was well resolved.
Xiao Qi also got what he wanted, the manufacturing method of the propeller and the blueprint of the waterproof structure of the underwater transmission system that he wanted very much.
However, this incident also sounded the alarm for Xiao Qi. There is still a huge gap between the industrial foundation and the technical level of various craftsmen and the level of industrial technology he wants to achieve.
Xiao Qi also understands that this gap cannot be eliminated in a short while.
This requires a long process. Even if you tell these craftsmen some of the techniques you can think of, these craftsmen can only learn these techniques, and at most they can apply them proficiently.
The best way is to find a way to let these craftsmen learn systematically so that they can understand the working principles of many machines.
When most senior craftsmen understand the working principle of the machine, some smart people among them will be able to explore and innovate new technologies as they gain a deeper understanding of technology.
Most of the senior craftsmen at this stage have learned their skills from their masters before.
These people can only be regarded as the successors of certain technical skills, not the pioneers who can improve and innovate the technology.
There is no way, Xiao Qi only needs to pin his hopes on the Dasong Advanced Technical College that has just been built and has recruited the first batch of students.
Only after several years of education in this high-level technical college has taught a large number of new technical talents who understand the working principle of machines, and among these outstanding students, it is possible to have talents capable of exploring and innovating new technologies.
Although Xiao Qi was very anxious, there was nothing he could do. After all, he studied medicine and not mechanics in his previous life, and he didn't know much about machines.
If the system hadn't released some missions from time to time and rewarded a few blueprints, he might still be worrying about how to build a steam engine, let alone talk about technological innovation.
Thinking that he had earned a lot of money by engaging in real estate in Pingjiang New Town at this time, and now he has a lot of money in his warehouse, and he doesn't even know how much money he has.
This thing is always in the warehouse and is not needed at all. For Xiao Qi, if there is too much money to spend, the silver money that has been kept is actually the same as if there is no money.
He got 1 taels of silver from the warehouse, loaded two four-wheeled carriages to pull them, and rushed to the Dasong Advanced Technical College, which had just recruited the first batch of students, with his own soldiers.
When he was at home, he had already thought about what to do, and he planned to guide these students who entered the advanced technical college to use their brains to carry out machine research and innovation.
Of course, the best way to guide is to reward.
This person, it is useless not to get up early, and there is no benefit. It cannot be said that no one is willing to do it, but I hope that the few people who do it will definitely not have any enthusiasm.
For this reason, Xiao Qi thought of the scholarship system in his previous life, and that thing called research funding.
He summoned all the teachers and students from Dasong Advanced Technical College and held a mobilization meeting for them.
At the conference, Xiao Qi announced that students who studied well in the academy would reach the level of advanced craftsmen as long as they had an understanding of steam engines, power transmission systems, looms and primary industrial machine tools.
Then these students can receive a reward of three taels of silver every month. On this basis, no matter whether it is a teacher or a student, who can suggest any improvement on these machines.
After everyone's argumentation, it is found that this suggestion is correct, then the teacher or student will receive a one-time reward of 100 taels of silver.
In addition, the college provides the venue and machines, and the person who made the suggestion will choose assistants to set up a research group. The Zhenbei Palace will give 1000 taels of silver every year to let them carry out improvement experiments according to his ideas.
Once they have researched the results and confirmed the results of this research, the efficiency of the original machine has been significantly improved.
Then the leader of this scientific research team, that is, the person who made the suggestion, if it is a teacher who already has an official position, then he will be promoted to an official position. Nine rank official positions.
Not only that, the leader of the research team directly rewarded 1000 taels of silver, and each member of the team was rewarded with 100 taels of silver.
Once this method was announced, and in front of all the teachers and students, Xiao Qi ordered his own soldiers to show the 1 taels of white silver to the college's treasury after showing it to everyone.
The teachers and students present all exploded.
And such a good thing!
Becoming a high-level craftsman is the purpose of their study here, and now they can still get money as a high-level craftsman!
What makes them even more excited is that as long as they have real talents and real learning, they can find out the areas that need to be improved on those machines. award.
It's like a pie from the sky!
There is no such thing as a patent these days. The craftsmen are still thinking about what I saw you make. As a result, I researched how to make this thing. If I can make it, that is my ability.
Xiao Qi didn't come up with patents at this time, and all kinds of machines are still rudimentary, and they can be easily updated and modified as long as they have been researched thoroughly.
If patents are produced at this time, it will not be long before not only will my own money not be enough to buy these patents, those machines will also be controlled by the craftsmen who have invented and modified the most.
This situation is not conducive to the realization of Xiao Qi's original intention of speeding up the improvement of various machines and improving the current level of industrial manufacturing.
After Xiao Qi left Dasong Advanced Technical College with his own soldiers, the entire college immediately set off a frenzy of researching various machines and earnestly learning the theoretical knowledge and practical experience of these machines.
Xiao Qi's step was undoubtedly right. After returning to the Zhenbei Palace, he was very satisfied with the feedback from the Song Dynasty Advanced Technical College.
I believe that in a year or so at most, there will be news that a certain machine has been successfully improved.
The reward system established by King Zhenbei at the Dasong Advanced Technical College was soon known by the craftsmen of the Dasong Foundry Bureau, and they elected representatives to go to Xiao Qi.
Ask the King of Zhenbei to have a bowl of water, and the senior craftsmen can receive silver. They will not compete with those students. After all, as long as they are senior craftsmen in the foundry bureau, their current salary is very high. Ten taels of silver a month is nothing to worry about. Down.
They hope that Xiao Qi can make them like the senior craftsmen on the other side of the students. Whoever finds that there are places on the machine that can be improved, if everyone proves that it is indeed feasible.
It can be the same as that in the college. You can find people to set up a research team and get 1000 taels of research funding every year. If you make improvements, you can be promoted to a first-level official position and get a reward of 1000 taels of silver.
Of course Xiao Qi is willing. For him, the more artisans participate, the better. As long as the current industrial manufacturing level can be improved rapidly, no amount of money will be required.
Not long after, Xiao Qi announced a slightly modified reward system at the Great Song Foundry Bureau.
It is said to be a change, but in fact it is just a change to the reward for ordinary members of the scientific research team.
Because each of the senior craftsmen in the foundry bureau has an official position after these years, so it is not appropriate to reward 100 taels of silver for a ninth-rank official position.
Xiao Qi removed the item of rewarding official positions, doubled the amount of silver rewards, and made ordinary members of the scientific research team all reward 200 taels of silver.
Now the craftsmen of the entire Song Dynasty have begun to concentrate on researching these new types of machines, all thinking about what they can discover, so that they can gain both fame and fortune.
Xiao Qi didn't care about this, it's human nature to like fame and fortune since ancient times.
As long as there are a group of scientific research-oriented technical talents among these craftsmen, then give them fame and fortune, as long as you have the ability to continuously improve the machine.
Even if it makes these people rich and wealthy throughout their lives, it is worthwhile. Senior craftsmen who can continuously improve machines and gradually upgrade those machines are the national treasures of the Song Dynasty.
Not to mention making them rich and powerful, but also sending them guards to ensure their personal safety.
Emperor Zhao Shen and the ministers in the court soon knew about Xiao Qi making such a big commotion outside.
These ministers were very dissatisfied.
It is said that everything is inferior, but reading is high?
Now the king of Zhenbei has made the salaries of those craftsmen skyrocket, and the status of these scholars, especially those who have not been admitted to Jinshi before, but are still respected because they are scholars, is now plummeting.
It's okay to be a Jinshi in the examination, the future is bright, and the door to official career has been opened. In the future, it can't be said that it is rich and rich, but it is also an official that everyone respects.
But there are very few who can pass the Jinshi exam.
The vast majority of scholars have studied hard for more than ten years, and in the end they spent a lot of money, but they got nothing.
Those with affluent families are fine, while those with mediocre backgrounds, and even those whose families pay for their studies, end up spending too much and their families fall into poverty.
It's good now, King Zhenbei has not only kept raising the salaries of craftsmen, but also set up elementary and intermediate schools.
Although these schools focus on cultivating literate artisans, they do not compete with them for official careers, even if they have made great achievements, at most they will reward them with a nominal official position.
But the silver earned by those craftsmen is real!
On the one hand, it is like gambling, betting all the money on the children who read sage books at home, and after ten or twenty years, the family will be ruined, and only a private school teacher or accountant will be cultivated.
On the other hand, it doesn't cost much money. After a few years, after the child in the family becomes a junior craftsman, not only does he not need to spend any more money, but the child can make a lot of money for the family.
Comparing these two results, except for the wealthy families who only hope to cultivate an official for their family, the other families with ordinary family backgrounds almost all send their children to the schools run by the King of Zhenbei. up.
This made those Confucianists, from the officials to the scholars below, all feel a huge threat.
But they didn't dare to do any small tricks, this king of Zhenbei was really not something Confucian scholars like them could provoke.
Those radical scholars who were doing things a few days ago have been piled up in Beijing by Princess Yongjia, and even the Confucius Mansion, which is the foundation of Confucianism, hastened to soften.
They don't even dare to mess around anymore. Whoever doesn't want to live a good life and die in vain is not willing to do it.
But they didn't dare to trouble Zhenbei King Xiao Qi, but they could chat with the emperor about it in the court hall!
During this period of time, Zhao Shen was very depressed. The ministers raised their opinions with Zhao Shen every day in the court, saying that King Zhenbei made those craftsmen's schools too disgraceful.
Most of the unenlightened children are taken to them. This will not work for a long time. There will be fewer and fewer people who read sage books. In the future, our Song Dynasty will lack talents for governing the country.
Zhao Shen knew very well what was going on in his heart, this incident really cannot be blamed on Xiao Qi, King of Zhenbei, every time his school enrolls new students, all the children's parents voluntarily send their children there.
Don't talk about running to snatch students from you, the teachers in other schools don't even have to go out the door, the students will find them by themselves.
But he couldn't stand the group of ministers arguing in his ears every day, so Zhao Shen had no choice but to call Xiao Qi into the palace to ask what was going on.
After hearing this, the ministers immediately shut up and stopped talking.
They all knew that when the emperor was in a hurry, he immediately called King Zhenbei here. King Zhenbei knew that they were messing with the school behind their backs.
If you go crazy and beat someone, then whoever gets the beating will be in vain.
After all, their school posted an admission notice every year, and the teachers in the school didn't even have to leave the door, and the parents of those children sent their children to the school.
There are fewer and fewer people who read the books of sages. It really cannot be said that King Zhenbei deliberately competed with them for students.
Xiao Qi got a message from his father-in-law, telling him to enter the palace and to ask him something.
Not knowing what happened, Xiao Qi didn't dare to delay, so he hurried to the palace to ask what happened.
I know that the group of ministers said that his schools took away a large number of uneducated children, and complained to the court every day, saying that there will be many fewer talents who can govern the country in the Song Dynasty.
Xiao Qi poohed disdainfully, and said: "Those rotten scholars are so full for two days that they don't know their surname.
Unknown to the father, the boy has been telling those schools that they are not allowed to go out to enroll students. Every time they enroll students, they only need to post the enrollment notice.
Those students were sent there voluntarily by their parents, so how could they compete for the students. "
Thinking that this body was also from a private school, he let out a long sigh:
"My child also read the so-called sage books in a private school, but can a person who reads sage books become a sage?
Those scholars have studied for a lifetime, and how many of them have really learned how to govern the country and the country, most of them gather together to recite poems and fight against each other.
What's more, they even made an appointment to go to the Huaihe River to listen to music together, hum!How could people like them deserve to be good at governing the country? "
(End of this chapter)